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Histoire naturelle des colibris : suivie d'un supplément à l'Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches : ouvrage orné de planches dessinées et gravées par les meilleurs artistes : et dédié A.M. le Baron Cuvier

by: Lesson, R. P. (René Primevère), 1794-1849; Lesson, R. P. (René Primevère), 1794-1849. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches; Prêtre, J. G. (Jean Gabriel), b. 1769, ill; Rémond, N., printer of plates; Coutant, engraver; Teillard, engraver; Bevalet, L., ill

Publication date: 1830

Topics: Hummingbirds, Hummingbirds

Publisher: Paris : Arthus Bertrand

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French

Item Size: 343.7M

Date from Zimmer although several sources quote 1830-1831

Paris.--Imprimerie de Rignoux"--Verso of half title

First sequence of plates includes 12 bis and 13 bis

A continuation of the author's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches with a supplement to the earlier work

Originally issued in 13 parts

"Supplément a l'Histore naturelle des oiseaux-mouches": p. [91]-192

Plates signed: Prêtre pinx.; Rémond imprest.; Coutant sculp.; Teillard sculp.; and Bévalet pinx

Plates are hand-colored

Includes bibliographical references

Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib.

extracted picklist

SCNHRB copy (39088015053580) stamped on p. 196: RU1 75 737

SCNHRB copy in black library buckram binding, title in gilt on spine

Addeddate: 2011-10-20 15:56:30

Associated-names: Lesson, R. P. (René Primevère), 1794-1849. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches; Prêtre, J. G. (Jean Gabriel), b. 1769, ill; Rémond, N., printer of plates; Coutant, engraver; Teillard, engraver; Bevalet, L., ill